Methods Biological

Note: students must be prepared to answer exam questions focused on practical work, which will include questions about the practical exercises themselves and questions about the general methodological issues that are specified for this particular unit. This will include the following requirement.

d Identify, describe and apply the following:

i alternative, experimental and null hypothesis
ii dependent variable (DV) and independent variable (IV)
iii controls
iv validity
v reliability
vi generalisability
vii credibility
viii levels of significance
ix Mann-Whitney test
x one and two tailed with regard to tests
xi critical and observed values
xii randomising and sampling
xiii levels of measurement.